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06 10 2024 The Coming Crisis · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Monday, June tenth, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is Your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is the Coming Crisis, The Coming Crisis. We'll get
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  inn to that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
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  dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  in heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for the blessing
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  that you are to us. Thank you for giving us your holy spirit to
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  teach us. Please help us to listen for your voice and only do what
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  pleases you. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and a men again.
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  Now let me just say right here that there are some people who live
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  in this constant state of fear. Constant state of fear. People are concerned
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  about all kinds of things, which is why people build bunkers and put up
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  ways to store food for years and years and years. And I can go
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  on through an entire list extreme security systems and all kinds of things, because
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  fear is a thing. In twenty twenty four, I'm not saying we should
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  not be preparing, but I am saying that life continues and we should be
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  thinking God is in control. I am surrendering my will to God. Now.
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  There is indeed a coming crisis, and we've been talking about this for
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  many, many years, and we get sneak peaks of this crisis on a
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  regular basis. But what God wants us to do is to put our trust
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  where in Him, not in our intellect, not in our ability to break
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  down the details of certain things from history and scripture and Bible prophecy, but
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  to put our trust in Him. In fact, Jesus said to some enemies
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  of his he wasn't making enemies, but those guys decided they didn't really want
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  to serve him. He said, you search the scriptures, for in them
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  ye think ye have eternal life. They are they that testify of me.
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  So God wanted us to really focus our attention on the relationship with God and
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  not just the words that we understand, as if if we get those things
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  in our minds, then we're safe. The Pharisees had the words locked in
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  their minds. The Sadducees had there had the words locked in their minds,
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  but they did not have a connection with God. Jesus is the truth.
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  His word is truth, and the commandments are truth. But we must not
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  forget that Jesus himself is truth. Okay, And so what we want to
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  do is worship God wholeheartedly as we are preparing. It's true that we are
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  preparing for a coming crisis, and so in John chapter sixteen and verse two,
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  the Bible says, they shall put you out of the synagogues. Of
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  course, Jesus was speaking in his day. Yay, the time cometh that
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  whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God's service. That will not have
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  been the first or last time. We know that for twelve hundred and sixty
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  long years during the Dark Ages, people who said that they were the people
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  of God were actually persecuting and destroying people who actually served God. So we've
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  seen this movie before, We're gonna see it again. And so he said,
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  there will be people who do that, but we're not to fear.
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  We are not to fear. We expect this because God gave us free and
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  clear understanding. So ground your faith deeply in the Word of God. Yes,
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  uhhah, understanding that trials and persecutions will come. But remember Jesus said,
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  when these things happen, reach and be exceeding glad, for great is
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  your reward in heaven. For so persecuted day the prophets which were before you.
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  When I was going through a certain trials some years ago, many years
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  ago, in the nineties, I was working in the psych field, and
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  it was just too much for me, or at least that's how I felt.
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  And I spoke to a mentor of mine, and he said, unlike
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  everybody else who said, oh it's going to change, everything's going to be
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  all right, it's going to be perfect one day. Oh this is something,
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  and they would palliate me. He said, now, Dave, I
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  want you to strap up like a good soldier. God is with you.
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  And that's what I want to say to you all. I want you to
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  put on the entire armor of God because He is with you. And in
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  two Timothy Timothy, chapter three and verse twelve, the Bible reads, yeay,
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  and all that will live godly in Christ, Jesus shall not might shall
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  suffer person. It's a promise, but he said that I will be with
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  you. I will be with you. When the waters and the floods come,
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  they will not overflow you. When the fires come, they shall not
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  kindle upon you nor destroy you. And so when the persecution comes, you
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  are in good company. Anticipate opposition, Prepare spiritually. This is what we're
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  saying. We're not preparing physically, We're not preparing in some other way.
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  We're preparing spiritually fortifying our lives with an experience with God that is rooted in
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  his word. We come together with God every day we walk with God like
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  Enoch did. We'll talk about that in a few days. Walk with God.
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  Be sure that we are on the same page with God. Ask him
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  what we can do for him, Ask him in what way we should live.
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  Ask him for wisdom, ask him for the fortitude to get through every
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  trial and temptation, and he will do it. And in Matthew ten and
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  verse twenty two, the Bible reads, and ye shall be hated of all
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  men for my name's sake. So, uh, yeah, people hated Jesus.
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  They're gonna hate you if you're his child. But he that does what
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  endures to the end shall be saved. We're gonna talk about that endurance over
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  the next couple of days. So those who endure, those who don't give
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  up, those who don't ask, keep asking God, why me? Well,
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  why not you? Jesus was down here, and Jesus was one hundred
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  percent innocent, and Jesus was persecuted. Jesus was beaten and slapped, Jesus
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  was murdered. Really, yes, he laid down his life. That he
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  might take it again. But it happened at the hands of people with murderous
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  thoughts and intent. Yes, and so what we need to do is commit
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  to enduring these challenges without compromising our faith. Okay, Verse Peter, chapter
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  four and verse twelve. The Bible reads, Think it not strange, beloved,
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  concerning the fiery trial that is going to try you as some strange thing
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  that happens to you. You're not a victim. Can I say that again?
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  You are not a victim. God has positioned you so that one day
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  you will be fully refined and purified, no matter what happens down here.
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  Religious persecution, Yes, yes, Cain killed Abel, his own brother.
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  We've seen this movie before, and so throughout Christian history persecution was common.
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  This is according to the lesson writer. It happened with pagan Rome, and
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  especially evident during the persecution of the Dark Ages, as I mentioned to you.
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  But the fact is, even though the devil is already preparing for professed
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  Christians to receive the mark of the Beast, even though he has done very
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  similar things in the past, no final conflict is going to be what final
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  Yeah, those who endure to the end will be saved at some point those
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  who look for him. Jesus said he will appear a second time without sin
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  unto salvation. Finally, Jesus will vanquish the foe once and for all.
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  No more beast, no more dragon, no more false prophet, no more
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  people who march around thinking that they can take advantage of God's people. Jesus
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  said, He's going to prevail, and he is going to bring his reward
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  with him to give every person according as our works shall be. Do not
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  give up the fight, brothers and sisters. God is with you, Beast,
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  thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great
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  day. Yeah,